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LUBRIGATING APPARATUS.

Patented May 8, 1883.

NITED STATES ATENT, Fries.

ORSON COLVIN, OF SOHOOICRAFT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO JACOB BAUER,

OF SAME PLAGE.

LUBRICATING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 277,440, dated May 8,1883.

Application filed April 2, 1883. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern Y Be it known that I, ORSON GOLVIN, a citizenof the United States, residing at Schoolcraft, in the county ofKalamazoo andvState ot' Michigan, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements tus, of which the following is a specitication, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has for its object to provide certain improved means ofoiling or lubricating such portions of machinery as are ordinarily outof convenient reach; and itis intended' especially for, use inconnection with windmills, although it is applicable to all otherclasses of machinery.A

The above-mentioned object I accomplish by the means illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a perspective viewof my improved oiling or lubricating apparatus, and Fig. 2 a detachedsectional view of a portion of the same.

The letterA indicates a tank or vessel of metal or other material, ot'any desired shape and size, which is located in the upper part of abuilding or structure or otherwise elevated above the machinery to belubricated. Through the said tank or vessel passes longitudinally arock-shaft, B, which is journaled :iny suitable bearings in the ends ot' the tank or vessel, and has mounted on its projecting end a drumV orpulley, B', having a chain extending downward within convenient reachfrom below, by means of which said shaft may be partially rotated. Thesaid shaft is held in and returned to a normal position by means ot' aspring, C, and is provided with a series of arms, D, which carry thecups E, as indicated inFig. l ofthe drawings. To one edge of the tank orvessel is secured a trough, F, lfrom which extend the conduits Gto therespective parts of the machinery to'be oiled or lubricated. In thepresent instance the conduits are shown as arranged to supply thelubricating material to a rotary shaft and its bearin gs, areciprocating rod and its guide, and toa wrist-pin and itsconnectingsleeve, to which the reciprocating rod is attached. In thecase 0f the wrist-pin and its sleeve, in order to permit the same tomove properly, the conduit is made in three sections, the upper onebeing in Lubricating Appara provided with a semi-cylindrical casing, H,atv

its lower end, which casing is open at its botdrical cup, I, from whichextends a pipe, K, upon which is adapted to slide the tubular section L,

with a semicircular open-bottomed casing, M,

to the tube P, attached to the sleeve'. It will be perceived that thisconstruction permits the conduit to move with the wrist-pin, and thussupply the oil or lubricant tothe same.

The cups on the ends of the radial arms attached to the longitudinalshaft set normally in the lubricant atthe bottomvof the tank or vessel.When it is desired to supply the lubricaut-to the machinery the shaft isturned by drawing on the chain in such manner as to invert the cups,

which are iilled with oil, over the trough at one side, so as to supplyitv in proper quantities to the conduits, to be delivered to the partsto be lubricated.

Having thus described myv invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

l. In an apparatus for lubricating machinparts of the apparatus tosupply the lubricant to the parts to be lubricated, substantially as andfor the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I aftix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ORSON COLVIN.

Witnesses:

T. W. SMITH, J. R. McCALL.

tom and has pivoted within it a semi-cylinwhich is provided at its lowerend within which is pivoted the cup N, connected 6o The operation of myinvention is as follows:

ery, the combination of anelevatedv tank or ves- 8o tions and adapted tomove with the movable

